One man, who had multiple children graduate from the school, thinks it’s ridiculous, noting, "It's being discriminatory. It's just not fair."

Another parent who has a child in Manatee doesn’t quite get it, either:

Two hundred dollars is a lot of money for a preferred seating. Is my child more important than yours?"

The $200 price tag comes on the heels of the school’s earlier mandate that students cough up $20 to participate in graduation.

As you may have guessed, the school is facing a shortfall of cash and has received fewer funds for graduation that it traditionally has, so these are measures to help defray expenses. Graduation is expected to cost somewhere between $10,000 and $12,000.